Isaiah 8:20
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
In context
18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
22 Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
Isaiah 8:20 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- KJV King James Version
- To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- WEB World English Bible
- Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
- WBS Webster Bible
- To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.